10-18-2005, 11:08 AM | #1 | |
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Greedy publisher cashes in with e-books
According to Smart Bitches, Toronto-based Harlequin is offering book authors who agreed to be published in e-book format a lousy six percent in royalties. Harlequin is one of the biggest publishers of series romance and women's fiction and has recently announced the launch of its e-book program in partnership with Lightning Source, eReader.com and OverDrive.
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10-18-2005, 05:37 PM | #2 | |
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Today, an author needs a publisher to print and distribute his book. Tomorrow, the author simply uploads it to his eStore of choice, puts a chapter up on his web site (or blog) to promote it, and rakes in the purchases without the middleman. |
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10-18-2005, 06:04 PM | #3 |
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Apparently, used books have publishers worried too, and they want a cut of used books sales as well as moratoriums on selling a title as used within a certain period of time after it is published.
NPR has a good article where this is discussed in the October 12, 2005 Technology Podcast (RSS Feed). |
10-19-2005, 03:26 PM | #4 | |
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In this context it makes the reluctance to embrace electronic distribution confusing, as it is far easier to turn electronic media into a pay-per-view scheme than traditional media. Many years ago I read an interview in which a movie studio executive (and I can't remember where I read it, unfortunately) said that the dumbest thing the studio's ever did was allow people to own their content. This mentality pervades to this day. |
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